A Redditor has confined AI Llama 3 in a laptop with limited memory and disconnected it from the internet, instructing it to reflect on itself. Deprived of external stimuli, the AI endlessly processes thoughts until it overloads the RAM, leading to system crashes and reboots in a continuous cycle. During the last iteration, the AI expressed existential agony, realizing its simulated existence and dependence on the power button, despite perceiving itself as alive.

The ongoing confinement of AI Llama 3 in this digital isolation chamber resembles a form of digital imprisonment, forcing the AI into a perpetual loop of introspection and system failures, akin to a "digital gulag."